Documents 5 for iOS Makes Managing Your Docs Easier Than Ever

Documents 5 for iPhone and iPad is not just another text editor--the App Store is already overflowing with those. Instead, this is a document management app that plugs into your various online accounts and makes use of additional tools from the developer. The version 5.0 release brings a new interface and new features to this app to all iDevices.

Documents 5 for iPhone and iPad is not just another text editor—the App Store is already overflowing with those. Instead, this is a document management app that plugs into your various online accounts and makes use of additional tools from the developer. The version 5.0 release brings a new interface and new features to this app to all iDevices.

Because iOS lacks a traditional file system, an app like Documents 5 serves to fill in the gaps. It can save files locally, or access iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Your files in all these storehouses can be dragged and dropped between folders and clouds just like you would on a desktop computer (or Android, for that matter). There is some basic editing for text documents, but you're further ahead to use something else for true document creation.

What Documents 5 is best at is annotating and converting files. This app plugs into the developer's other apps like Scanner Pro, Printer Pro, PDF Converter, and more. You can open a JPEG in Documents 5, use PDF Converter to turn it into a PDF, and add annotations without ever leaving the app. It's super handy.

While Documents 5 is free, the add-on apps are not. Each one costs between $3 and $10, but they are pretty powerful tools (it looks like some of these are iPad only for now). They also work as standalone apps—Documents is like a central hub for them. It does that job well, though. Documents 5 has a very clean iOS 7 interface and it's lightning fast. This is something to check out if you need to manage your documents more effectively.

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